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Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance, The editor's pick popular

http://www.climate-standards.org/

3 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

developing and promoting a set of rigorous standards for evaluating climate, community and biodiversity impacts of land-based carbon projects
Added: Jun. 21, 2004 | Rate It

Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular

http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides scientific perspectives on tropical deforestation and climate change, and a discussion of compensation payments made via the carbon market to reduce deforestation rates, by the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research, together with Environmental Defense
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Woods Hole Research Center editor's pick popular

http://www.whrc.org/whrc.htm

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

studies forest ecology to demonstrate its value to local populations who are in a position to foster forest sustainability
Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Biofuelwatch editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Forests Now editor's pick updated

http://www.forestsnow.org/

a declaration calling on world governments to take urgent action on deforestation in the tropics and sub-tropics; such deforestation causes 18-25% of global carbon emissions, which is more than the world’s entire transport industry
Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

Livestock's Long Shadow editor's pick

http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

a report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization which finds that livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems and that urgent action is required to remedy the situation (pdf)
Added: Jan. 11, 2007 | Rate It

Palm Oil Action editor's pick

http://www.palmoilaction.org.au/

concerned with oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea
Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal editor's pick

http://www.newenergychoices.org/uploads/RushToEthanol-bro.pdf

analysis and recommendations for U.S. biofuels policy; concluding that biofuels are not the silver bullet solution that some say they will be (pdf)
Added: Jul. 20, 2007 | Rate It

South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/peatfiresbackground.pdf

Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Forests Absorbing Carbon dioxide Emission - Face Foundation popular

http://www.facefoundation.nl/Eng/introFaceE.html

9 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

funds the planting and maintenance of forests in order to curb the greenhouse effect
Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Global Roundtable on Climate Change popular

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/grocc/

4 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

a stakeholder forum of leaders from industry, governments and NGOs, set up to discuss and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific, technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public policies on climate change
Added: Mar. 08, 2007 | Rate It

Assesment of CO2 emissions from drained peatlands in South-east Asia

http://www.wetlands.org/publication.aspx?id=51a80e5f-4479-4200-9be0-66f1aa9f9ca9

calculates CO2 emissions from peat oxidation and peat fires in South East Asia and investigates the causes, likely future trends and option for mitigation strategies; by Delft Hydraulics in cooperation with Wetlands International and Alterra
Added: Jan. 04, 2007 | Rate It

Avoided Deforestation Partners.org

http://www.adpartners.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

works to harness market forces toward halting tropical deforestation through innovative public and private sector partnerships
Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It

Biofuels threaten to accelerate global warming

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/biofuels-accelerate-climate-change.pdf

report by Biofuelwatch about the climate impacts of large-scale biofuel production
Added: Jun. 22, 2007 | Rate It

Clouds on the Horizon: The Congo Basin's Forests and Climate Change

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/files/Global%20Warming%20Low%20PDF.pdf

a report by the Rainforest Foundation UK about emissions from deforestation in the Congo Basin, and the likely impact of increased logging and land conversion in the future (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Cool Earth

http://www.coolearth.org/

8 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

works to control carbon emissions and halt climate change by tackling tropical deforestation, purchasing rainforests for their carbon ecosystem services
Added: Oct. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and CO2 Emissionsin Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/02/26/riaureport.pdf

report documents deforestation and degradation of natural forests in a section of Sumatra, Indonesia, and its impacts upon carbon release and climate change (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Generating Carbon Finance by Maintaining Forest Benefits

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/kq13503333tqvk62/fulltext.pdf

scientific journal article suggesting that trading credits for reducing emissions from deforestation is economically feasible (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Policies and Practice in Indonesian Peatlands

http://www.tropenbos.nl/news/mini%20symposium%20Wardojo/Marcel%20Silvius%20-%20Tropenbos2-7-'06.pdf

Wetlands International presentation on the destruction of Indonesia's peatlands and the impact on global warming and on biodiversity, freshwater supplies, and local communities (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

RAINFOR

http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/rainfor/

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

an international network established to monitor the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests
Added: Dec. 03, 2004 | Rate It

Real Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forest and the Climate, The

http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/img/userpics/File/publications/Therealcostofagrofuels.pdf

report concludes current and future agrofuel technologies are a key direct and indirect cause of global deforestation, and thus contribute to climate change as well as to loss of livelihoods (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

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